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Republicans turned to Thomas E. Dewey as the man likeliest to beat Term IV. Last April, the results of the Wisconsin primaries reached Willkie in an Omaha hotel room; next night he withdrew from the race...
That was what Boston medical men thought about women medical students in 1850. The faculty of Harvard decided nevertheless to admit a woman, but in the face of the doctors' resolutions she withdrew her application...
...backed away, flicking his paws. He burned villages down to the last henhouse as he withdrew and, when he had time, and felt like it, killed more civilians for daring to wear a look of hope...
Justice of another kind quickly overtook the Vichy regime. Switzerland withdrew recognition of the Vichy Government, prepared to recognize the Government of General Charles de Gaulle. The Vatican ceased to recognize Vichy. Sweden and Turkey bowed out. Spain and Portugal raced for the privilege of dropping the hot cake, ended in a dead heat of disclaimers against Vichy's further right to diplomatic recognition...
Once, at Walawbum, when a Marauder unit was confronted by an overwhelming enemy force, the mules set up such a clamor that the Japs thought they must be outnumbered and withdrew...